Max Gallo

Max Gallo (7 January 1932-18 July 2017) was a French politician and historian.

Biography
Max Gallo was born in Nice, France in 1932 to a family of Italian immigrants, and he became a journalist and was a member of the French Communist Party until 1956. Gallo joined the Socialist Party of France in 1974 and went on to serve as an MP from 1981 to 1983, Secretary of State from 1983 to 1984, and an MEP from 1984 to 1994, and he co-founded the Citizen and Republican Movement in 1993. In 1994, he left politics entirely to become a full-time writer, and he was elected to the Academie francaise in 2007. He died ten years later.